Johan Hermans
Johan Hermans is a British botanist specialising in orchids, and an Honorary Research Associate of Royal [Botanic Gardens, Kew]. His The Orchids of Madagascar, described as "a now classic work", was published in a second edition in 2007.
The species Gastrodia agnicellus, which he described in 2020, has been called "the ugliest orchid in the world" and named by Kew as one of the "Top 10 species new to science in 2020".